Here's what it means. Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.

Currently, the effects of the ocean changing colors are not known, so in the future, the team could tackle how it could affect fish and other marine species.

The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. More than 56% of the world’s oceans have ...

Phytoplankton need sun and nutrients to flourish, but when the ocean warms, the individual layers that make up the sea grow more stratified, so it’s harder for phytoplankton to float up and down ...

The colors indicate how chlorophyll concentration is changing at specific latitudes, in which the subtropics are generally losing chlorophyll, and the polar regions -- the high-latitude regions ...

The presence of chlorophyll in open ocean is a proxy for concentrations of phytoplankton biomass. The colors indicate how chlorophyll concentration is changing at specific latitudes, in which the ...